Last week marked a shortened trading week in observance of Good Friday, but that does not mean that investors were left with an uneventful four days. On the contrary, markets went haywire Read more…
NYSE:CHIE, SWH, XLP
Stocks closed modestly higher on Thursday as volume fell to end the holiday shortened week. The markets gapped up at the open and spent the remainder of the day consolidating near session Read more…
KOL, XLU
iPath has introduced its Seasonal Natural Gas ETN (NYSE:DCNG), giving investors yet another way to gain exposure to natural gas prices through exchange-traded products. Read more…
NAGS, NYSE:DCNG, NYSE:GAZ, UNG, UNL
Emerging markets funds took in $1.5 billion last week, which is leading some of the brokerage firms to call the asset class overbought. Read more…
NYSE:EEM, NYSE:EWY, RSX, SPY, THD, TUR
We have written before that institutional investors are going to wake up one day and realize that they need to buy gold for their portfolios. Well, that’s beginning to happen. Read more…
IAU, NYSE:DGP, NYSE:DGZ, NYSE:GDX, NYSE:GDXJ, NYSE:GLD, NYSE:GLL, SGOL
The price action in the financial markets this week has added to the continued confusion about where equity prices are headed. Precious metals and oil prices have been working higher for quite Read more…
NYSE:GLD, SLV, SPY, USO, UUP
If you think the crude oil market has gone totally out of control in the past month or so, observe the Silver market, which has basically gone parabolic in the week of April 17, going from $41.75 Read more…
IAU, NYSE:AGQ, NYSE:DBS, NYSE:GLD, PSLV, USO, ZSL
Barclays Bank PLC rolled out 18 new exchange-traded notes on Thursday, introducing a new suite of products designed to give investors exposure to various commodities. Each of the new ETNs Read more…
NAGS, NYSE:CORN, NYSE:CRUD, NYSE:DIRT, NYSE:HEVY, USCI, WEET
Ron Rowland: Can a passive index fund accurately track its index when it has only one holding for every 423 holdings of the underlying index? Last week (4/14/11), State Street Global Advisors Read more…
NYSE:CBND, NYSE:HYD, NYSE:HYMB
Kent Moors: Crude oil prices rose for the third straight day yesterday (Thursday) – with more of the same to come. Read more…
NYSE:DIG, NYSE:DUG, OIH, OIL, UCO, USO
Guggenheim Funds Investment Advisors, LLC, is pleased to announce that the Claymore U.S. Capital Markets Bond ETF has declared a distribution. The table below summarizes the distribution Read more…
ETF BASIC NEWS
The past week has seen the continuation of brisk expansion in the ETF industry, with more than a dozen new products debuting. The product pipeline continues to fill as well, with the most Read more…
NYSE:AGG, NYSE:BND, NYSE:BWX, SCHZ, TZV
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